On Saturday, 19. November 2011 20:08:36 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2011 7:28 PM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And, finally, yeah..that isn't just "not much", that's a terribly small > > amount of memory. Assuming you've kept the software current, some of your > > applications have certainly not been maintained with 600MB of system > > memory in mind. > > Indeed. With less than 800MB, gcc fails to upgrade. Always. For some > RAM-constrained systems (e.g. the VMs in my company's cloud), I even have > to do an "out-of-the-box" upgrade, i.e., upgrade an identical copy on the > physical data center, grab the binpkg tarball, and upload the tarball to > the cloud.
If you provide enough swap this shouldn't be an issue. I have a box running Xen dom0 with 680MB RAM and 1.5GB swap and it compiles everything fine so far. Of course I didn't emerge firefox, libreoffice or similar packages on this system, but at least for gcc this is fine. Best regards
